Data Architect

Join Ascent, build amazing Data Solutions for our customers, and grow your career.  

 
About Us    

Ascent is a leading Microsoft Azure-focused consultancy and services company, specialising in App Innovation, Data, AI, and Cloud Infrastructure solutions. Recognised as a Microsoft Fabric Featured Partner, we design and deploy data platforms for customers using technologies such as Microsoft Fabric and Databricks. Our cutting-edge solutions support clients across a broad range of industries, including manufacturing, finance, retail, insurance, pharmaceuticals, smart homes, energy, and logistics. 

We are looking for a Data Architect to join our growing team. In this role, you’ll drive customer success by designing scalable, secure data architectures and leading teams across data engineering, visualisation, analytics, and AI. You’ll help deliver data products that unlock real business value. 

At Ascent, we foster a vibrant, collaborative community. Our hybrid working model includes a mix of remote work, occasional client visits, and time at our central London office. 

Your Core Responsibilities 

• Design scalable Azure Data Architectures aligned to customer needs 
• Produce High-Level and Low-Level Designs (HLD/LLD) for Engineers to build to 
• Work closely with customer business and technical stakeholders  
• Define ingestion, pipelines, data models, analytics and insights 
• Work with peers to deliver solutions (e.g. Engineers, Analysts, Scientists and Cloud) 
• Mentor and provide technical leadership  
• Ensure data governance and security 
• Monitor and optimise solution performance 
• Maintain documentation and standards 
• Contribute to Ascent’s data platform accelerators which expedite projects 
• Stay current with emerging trends 
• Participate in our internal data communities 

Your Skills 

• Proven success as a Data Architect 
• Expertise in one or more of the following platforms: Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse Analytics and Azure Databricks, and supporting data technologies like Power BI, Microsoft Purview, Azure SQL Database, Azure Data Lake, etc.  
• Able to consult, advise, architect and estimate project work  
• Strong analysis, requirements gathering and data modelling 
• Solid data platform engineering experience in notebooks, pipelines, python and SQL 
• A good understanding of DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, GitHub and CI/CD promotion 
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills 
• Experience working with customers of various industries and size (e.g. SMC, Enterprise) 
• Commercial Agile experience 
• A natural curiosity and appetite for learning and continuous improvement 
• Microsoft certifications and knowledge of AI is a plus 

Working at Ascent

At Ascent we promote a healthy work-life balance by offering flexibility in where you work.  We also promote well-being and provide access to Well Being Coaches.
Your development and learning will be taken seriously, and we’ll support your professional development with training and certification, with regular feedback and review. It is a fun, supportive and modern workplace where we really live by our company values of Empathy, Energy and Audacity! Ascent also offers a variety of benefits in each of our countries. 
Ascent is an equal opportunities employee. We take intentional steps to ensure inclusion and belonging are something real here, not just something we talk about. No person will be treated less favorably because of their gender, pregnancy, and maternity status, marital or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, race, nationality, ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, or disability status. If you require any reasonable accommodation, please let us know when you apply.